No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for August 1st, 2008

Roll bloat – grab the lithium

by @ 21:23. Filed under The Blog.

Metaphorically-speaking, at least. Please welcome BipolarNation to the roll. Yes, they’re local.

IE8 Beta 1 – Almost worth it

by @ 21:02. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I noticed this evening that a lot of the sites I have in my feed reader, like Hot Air and Townhall’s main blog (as well as the user blogs, including my little corner hole in the wall) have suddenly popped up with “Unable to load site – Operation Aborted” errors. That’s very annoying as both my feed readers use the IE API to open up websites that offer limited feeds. After a bit of searching, I found out that Microsoft threw up Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.

There’s some good news and some bad news:

– It gets rid of the “Operation Aborted” errors that have plagued the last few versions of IE.
– A LOT of sites are going to look ugly in IE8. A very-quick example is Haloscan; the Gravatars pop outside the pop-up box.
– However, there’s good news; we can choose to emulate IE7’s look.

Normally, I wouldn’t recommend a beta. However, if you do run into the “Operation Aborted” problem and cannot for whatever reason completely supplant IE with Firefox, get it and activate the IE7 emulation.

Revisions/extensions (7:42 am 8/2/2008) – The Lizards tracked the trigger of Microsoft’s IE 5.5-7 (inclusive) fuck-up to a fuck-up by Sitemeter. Boy am I glad I dumped those bastiches.

R&E part 2 (10:14 am 8/2/2008) – IE8(B1) doesn’t quite squash the underlying bug, as Sitemeter’s site doesn’t render properly due to it. It does, however, ignore it if a third-party site causes the glitch.

Adult cells once again show more promise than embryonic stem cells

by @ 17:43. Filed under Health.

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes a story on how a group of scientists at Columbia and Harvard Universities expanded on some exploratory work at UW and Kyoto University and coaxed adult skin cells of a pair of elderly ALS patients first to embryonic-like cells, then to nerve cells. It still is considered too risky to actually use those cells as they’re re-enginered with viruses, but these cells can at the least be used to study whether they’ll be effective on genetic diseases, as the two women have a form of ALS that is linked to genetics.

As Jimi says, the score is now 7851 to 0.

“Thank” you, Sen. Salazar

by @ 16:54. Filed under Energy, Politics - National.

(H/T – Ed Morrissey)

On the floor of the Senate yesterday, Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) proved my maxim that, as long as government gets the money, the DhimmiRATs are happy with ever-increasing gas prices. Watch the video, folks; you wouldn’t believe it if I told you that Salazar and his fello DhimmiRATs want gas to be more than $10/gallon, at which point our roads become like the former Soviet Union’s….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FcNNeuf0E[/youtube]

No fucking wonder why SanFranNan left town without any action taken on increasing production, the only action proven to reduce gas prices.

If you think that $10/gallon for gas is too cheap, vote for Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow ‘Rats. On second thought, go move your Communist ass to Europe; they’re almost to that $10/gallon point, and the political climate is already to your liking.

Where’s that property tax “freeze”?

by @ 16:45. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee, Politics - Milwaukee County, Politics - Oak Creek, Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

I could’ve swore that local governments were supposed to be capped to a 3.86% increase in property-tax levies last year. Imagine my surprise when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that property tax levies actually increased by 6.1% in southeast Wisconsin last year, with municipalities increasing their levies by 5.2%. I don’t know what’s worse; the fact that they busted the cap by 33%, or the terming of that 33% busting as a “hold” by the presstitute who wrote the story, Mike Johnson. Hell, I wouldn’t even term the average county increase of 3.4% a “hold”.

Inflate What? part two

by @ 15:28. Filed under Energy.

I covered Obama’s Energy plan here. Inflate your tires and get a tune up, was Barack’s solutions. In my previous post I showed you that at best, the savings of Barack’s plan would be 6% or $.24 on a $4 gallon of gas. Of course with most of newer cars being largely unimpacted by traditional “tune-up” needs and that not all cars have underinflated cars, the 6% at top drops quickly to some number less than that…probably 1/2.

In an attempt to be generous, let’s assume that if we all ran out an implemented Barack’s “Energy Plan for America,” the average savings would be 4%. 4% of $4 gas is $.16/gallon. That’s Barack’s plan, saving $.16/gallon.

While I’m not for it because it doesn’t solve any long term needs, John McCain suggested removing the federal gas tax. Barack Obama dismissed that option in April by saying:

"We’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something," said Obama.

Ummmmm, the Federal gas tax is $.184/gallon. Barack’s solution is $.16/gallon. According to Obama, McCain’s wasn’t worth considering because it “would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer.” If McCain’s was a gimmick, what does that make Barack’s solution?

Gimmick or Pander….you decide!

The Morning Scramble – 8/1/2008

by @ 11:29. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

I warned you way back when that this was not a daily feature. Sorry about missing the last 2 days; here’s some Def Leppard from when they kicked arse (instead of teaming up with Tim McGraw) to make up for that…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSxAWcP7Fs[/youtube]

  • Headless Blogger finds Barack Obama’s gas “plan” of speed-limit enforcing (as if I’ll slow down barring repeated speed traps) and proper tire inflation (which I actually believe in; low-pressure tires are the #1 cause of BadYear blowouts in NASCAR) helpful, if a bit underwhelming.
  • Mary Katharine Ham says that it’s not the heat, it’s the vapidity.
  • Allahpundit caught the DNC ripping off the Leave Brittney Alone guy.
  • Bill Quick has the definitive answer to that.
  • Slublog joins the growing list of “racists” in style. If only I had thought to do a Photoshop of the local lefty “brain trust” as they missed the mark a while back,….
  • Kate plays “Know Your Candidate, Obamination Edition”.
  • Kyle-Anne Shiver thanks God for Obama’s inept candidacy. If only 45-55% of those that can be bothered to vote weren’t Kool-Aid drinkers,….
  • C. Edmund Wright found yet another new federal program supported by Obama – reparations. Welfare by any other name….
  • Elliot has some tech questions for Obama and Newsweek columnist Obamination campaign staffer Anna Quindlen.
  • Ed Morrissey has some sticker shock for those of you going to St. Paul to blog the GOP convention. Sean, you might want to fold that sticker shock into your fundraising blegs.
  • Geoff proves once again that, given removal of incentives to come and stay here, illegal aliens will stop coming and start self-deporting.
  • Doubleplusundead cheers Congress taking bipartisan steps to reassert its responsibility over the District of Columbia and enforce the 2nd Amendment. It is fitting that he gave the hat tip to a place called Snowflakes in Hell, because that’s precisely what is happening.
  • Michelle Malkin proves that “free” health care is all about the politics, as the ‘Rats are attacking Sen. Tom Coburn for not charging for baby deliveries. I’ll bet they wouldn’t care if he were performing free abortions, even though he is a Pubbie.
  • Nate Beeler pictures the Bridge to Nowhere.
  • Brent J highlights an interview John Gard (Pubbie candidate in the 8th Congressional here in Wisconsin) did with CQ Politics.
  • Bill Quick cheers a potential breakthrough in the production of hydrogen, using nothing but the sun, water, cobalt, phosphate, and an electrode. Faster, please!
  • Charles Krauthammer asserts that the ‘Rat no-drill policy is harming the planet, as countries that care less for proper drilling techniques than American oil companies increase their drilling.
  • B.C. the Imperial Torturer notes the ice keeps on building up around the Arctic Circle. In the hilarious tour de force, he sets a new record for uses of the ™ symbol, so go read it already.
  • Lady Logician asks which number was higher in the 2nd quarter of 2008 – ExxonMobil’s profits or ExxonMobil’s tax liability. I won’t quite spoil the answer, but one was nearly three times as high as the other.
  • John Hawkins notes that the Congressional ban on drilling will expire on 10/1. LET THERE BE GRIDLOCK!
  • XBradTC finds some troop-friendly uses for dirt. I didn’t know a properly-filled sandbag could stop an AK-47 round at point-blank range.
  • Kat found a Congresscritter who introduced a bill to house all the “guests” at Club Gitmo on Supreme Court grounds. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
  • Just in case you missed it, Jim Hoft didn’t miss the fact that July 2008 was the least-deadly month for US troops in Iraq since February 2003 and for Iraqi civilians since December 2005. Paging Mr. Kagen. Paging Mr. Obama. Please pick up the reality check.
  • Geoff found another ‘Rat who has yet to have a dose of reality; the one that’s but 2 heartbeats from the Oval Office.
  • Heather Radish has the football quote of the day. I only wish it were a Packer who uttered it, but Wile E. Thompson (mud) has sucked the fun out of the team.
  • Dr. Melissa Clouthier breaks out the world’s smallest violin for the sexist whiners of the blogosphere. If the blogosphere were sexist, would I have Melissa, or Mary Katharine, or Kate, or Heather, or Lady Logician, or Katie Favazza, or Dagney Taggert, or (well, I think you get the idea) on the bloated roll, my feed reader, and in the Scramble on a regular basis?
  • James Wigderson wonders whether Hollywood’s leading actors and actresses will practice the liberal mantra it preaches. Since liberalism on the rich end is about shutting off access to the club for the nearly-rich, I’ll bet not.
  • Speaking of oh-so-compassionate liberals, Jib notes that the ones that tried to shut down the Badger Blog Alliance via the oft-abused Blogger “abuse” feature failed.
  • Brian summarizes some basic conservative beliefs. I’m going to miss him in the blogosphere as he announced his retirement from blogging.
  • Ed Driscoll chronicles the latest example of the decline and fall of Canada – 35 people stood by as a thug repeatedly stabbed, beheaded and gutted a human on a Greyhound bus (emphasis added for the benefit of the local lefty “brain trust”).

A Fisking Twofer

by @ 5:42. Filed under Energy.

I couldn’t decide which way to go with this so….Here’s the story:

Test Finds Gas Additive Doesn’t Improve Mileage

My first thought was:

Well, there goes Barack’s energy plan!

But than I thought better this:

Psssst, someone leak this to Obama’s campaign before he adds it to his energy plan.

Got some others?

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